Nearly four years after a devastating landslide took the lives of two residents, about 100 community members gathered at the Chilkat Center to hear geologist Mort Larsen address a familiar, yet pressing issue: landslide hazards. 

The coastal Pacific Northwest has seen thousands of landslides, historic and modern – but there is more work to be done to understand the landslide frequency and intensity in Alaska, and what drives them.

Jeannette Eberle and Sky Skiles orient…

Rashah McChesney is a multimedia journalist and editor who has reported and edited newsrooms from the Deep South to the Midwest to Alaska. For the past decade, she has worked in collaborative news as the...